Posts by TerryWalstrom

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What is the most current information on the Ricco indictments of Don Adams re: Menlo Park?

by TerryWalstrom in

did this quietly go away?.

details, please.

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TerryWalstrom

Take this for what it is worth. It is pathetically amusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox95oEaeJFE

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What is the most current information on the Ricco indictments of Don Adams re: Menlo Park?

by TerryWalstrom in

did this quietly go away?.

details, please.

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Relatively speaking, and in my personal estimation, this is the BIGGEST story ever to address corruption in the Watchtower Organization, and it is not high on the list of interests by the majority of Ex-JW's--at least, as far as I can tell.

WHY?

Money laundering is huge.

If nothing corrupt were being carried out by the Org there would have been no need at all to create the mechanism of money washing, hand-changing, influence peddling, and phone-tapping.

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Sidebar: Several months ago, quite by random, I met and spoke with a man who turned out to be (and to have been for 40 years) legal counsel for a large contingent of Pentecostal ministers with TV ministries.

My ears perked up! We discussed the books I had written in aid of exposing the Watchtower Organization, and the lawyer's ears perked up too!

He began telling me a mind-boggling tale of corruption.

Long story short, he had spent his entire adult life helping a wide assortment of evangelists escape prosecution for extraordinarily illegal activities which were rampant in their ministries.

He described 'black bag' operations wherein he was handed bags filled with cash and told to hide them until further notice. He described drugs, prostitution, pederasty, and bloodshed he would be called in the middle of the night to clean up and make go away!

He wanted--and had wanted--for a long, long time to turn the tables on these minions by exposing them in a tell-all book. But, he told me with his eyes brimming with tears, he knew nothing would be done by the authorities and his life wouldn't be worth a plugged nickel afterward.

I asked him why authorities wouldn't prosecute. He gave me the sort of smile an old man gives a young boy who is naive. He shook his head side to side and bespoke a tale of intrigue that dumbfounded me and left me reeling. He explained how 'the system' worked. At the top, the connected look out for each other. Politicians need money for election / re-election and turn to donors and money laundering schemes. In return, the politicians provide certain protections for the donors. There are vast networks of officials, bankers, police, clerks, etc. who earn a 'shadow income' supporting such networks.

Well, as it turns out, it has A LOT to do with them!

Religions are tax exempt and their inner workings are cloaked in a special status which hides and shields many opportunities for 'others' to employ them for nefarious purposes.

Large real estate transactions, hedge fund investments, charitable projects in foreign lands, etc. do NOT attract the same attention for a religion as would be the case for a for profit corporation.

The attorney proceeded to tell me how a local preacher, Robert Tilton, had purchased so many satellites for televising his ministry, he had cornered the market which allowed him the opportunity to lease transmission accessibility for TV networks such as NBC (as well as a host of other ministries) which raked in billions of dollars annually! Tilton, of course, was a phony preacher and a scurrilous, addicted low-life who couldn't keep himself out of trouble. He had an enormous cocaine habit as well as gambling problems which frittered away so much cash he was jeopardizing things for his Network of cronies. His ministry had to taken in at leas one million dollars PER DAY just to break even!!

The only requirement his Network of fellow evangelists demanded was the absence of public scandal in order not to jeopardize their gravy train. Tilton could not / would not comply and took a big fall by defaulting on his satellite payments. Even with 30 million viewers and carloads of cash donations pouring in from people needing prayers and healing, Tilton screwed the pooch. His average donor pledged and paid $25,000 per year! (Do the math!) His income was greater than Madonna and Michael Jackson combined, according to Diane Sawyer's expose' of Tilton on national television. A 'visible' income of 80 million dollars per year TAX FREE was easily detected, but--according to my lawyer friend, it wasn't a freckle of the total bonanza beneath the surface which went for payoffs to police, politicians, officials, and lawyers such as himself, as well as a hefty paycheck for mastermind Jim Moore, a well-connected 'media consultant.' Jim Moore would zoom in on who among the donors had big money. They came under his microscope to be scrutinized, surveilled, and targeted as to the number of assets, family members, habits, weaknesses, etc. All of which were compiled into a data base enabling Tilton's ministry to zero in on how to pinpoint his appeals for more cash!

The network Tilton and a host of others shared, had connections with organized crime through a man named Herman Bebe. Ralph W. Nichols and J.C. Joyce.

Ralph W. Nichols (the lawyer who was telling me this) and J.C. Joyce, his partner dealt with the lowest of low-life schemers, con-men, and architects of fraud on a daily basis for decade after decade.

Nichols told me he was now 70 years old and sick at heart. He just couldn't do it any longer.

But, he said he also knew things about the Watchtower Organization as well because some of the people he had to work with were doing consulting work with them. I don't know the details because Mr. Nichols was late for an appointment. It really raised my curiosity, to say the least!

We made plans to speak again. I offered to help him if he would help me. I could be his 'beard' or camouflage in publishing a book exposing the snake pit of crime behind the Pentecostal preachers syndicate. He would provide me with expertise in how things operated and point to what to look for.

Alas, after that one solitary meeting I could never reach him by e-mail or cellphone again.

Make of all of this what you will. It is pointless to speculate further.

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Are we pro-shunning or against it?

by Simon in

just to continue my theme about religious freedom and how we approach criticizing the wts, i've also been thinking about 'shunning'.. i think shunning is the most unifying complaint that most ex-members of religious groups that practice it have in common.

it is the layer that runs under every other complaint - whatever the reason for leaving it seems "... and i was shunned" can be added to it as the final rap on the charge sheet.. of course it seems like a no-brainer to many of us and we hardly ever stop to really think about it - shunning is bad, the watchtower believes in shunning therefore the watchtower is bad.

they need to stop it.

TerryWalstrom

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What is the most current information on the Ricco indictments of Don Adams re: Menlo Park?

by TerryWalstrom in

did this quietly go away?.

details, please.

.

TerryWalstrom

Did this quietly go away?

Details, please. . .

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Are we pro-shunning or against it?

by Simon in

just to continue my theme about religious freedom and how we approach criticizing the wts, i've also been thinking about 'shunning'.. i think shunning is the most unifying complaint that most ex-members of religious groups that practice it have in common.

it is the layer that runs under every other complaint - whatever the reason for leaving it seems "... and i was shunned" can be added to it as the final rap on the charge sheet.. of course it seems like a no-brainer to many of us and we hardly ever stop to really think about it - shunning is bad, the watchtower believes in shunning therefore the watchtower is bad.

they need to stop it.

TerryWalstrom

FORCED shunning is the issue.

If you are threatened with spiritual death (disfellowship) if you make a personal choice of association, it is a crime against humanity. If there was such a thing as Christian Conscience permitted by the WT, it would be far more bearable.

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IDEAL BATHROOMS

by TerryWalstrom in

jw
friends

i use to dream about designing a bathroom that was, well.

crazy.. today, i saw this photo and almost fell over.

obviously somebody else had the same dream!.

TerryWalstrom

I use to dream about designing a bathroom that was, well. . . crazy.

Today, I saw this photo and almost fell over. Obviously somebody else had the same dream!

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EXPERTS ONLY! A Pop Quiz on (current) Watchtower teaching

by TerryWalstrom in

pop quiz on jw (current) teaching.

1. was jesus 2nd coming in 1914?.

2. is jesus 2nd (parousia) presence the same thing as his coming?.

TerryWalstrom

The GB is like the lazy relative who borrowed money from you years ago and every time you bump into them they have yet a bigger excuse and elaborate story as to why they don't pay.

It becomes a kind of spectator sport watching them spin new webs.

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"Scum, roosters, jackasses, harlots, s.o.b.s" hate speech by JW's the reason for their "persecution"???

by TerryWalstrom in

from the online journal yad l'achim .

http://yadlachim.org/?categoryid=203&articleid=577.

in the above article jehovah's witnesses and the jews, a great many controversial issues are placed squarely in the spotlight of history.

TerryWalstrom

The article gave the JW Org a real bitch slap.

I'm posting it on Facebook.

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"Scum, roosters, jackasses, harlots, s.o.b.s" hate speech by JW's the reason for their "persecution"???

by TerryWalstrom in

from the online journal yad l'achim .

http://yadlachim.org/?categoryid=203&articleid=577.

in the above article jehovah's witnesses and the jews, a great many controversial issues are placed squarely in the spotlight of history.

TerryWalstrom

Note that Yad L'Achim was formed in 1950 with the stated goal of to "help new immigrants to the newly born country, and to help them find a suitable religious framework. Over time the founders were disturbed by emerging missionary efforts in the new State, and then later by assimilation. It then turned a major part of its activities to combating these two issues."

This group (responsible for the above article) is disturbed by the efforts of outside Christian missionaries to 'intrude' upon Jewish society in an effort to proselytize them. It is little wonder Jehovah's Witnesses have come under scrutiny with a view to undermining their claims of self-righteousness.

So, this is the inborn 'prejudice' behind the writing of this article.

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"Scum, roosters, jackasses, harlots, s.o.b.s" hate speech by JW's the reason for their "persecution"???

by TerryWalstrom in

from the online journal yad l'achim .

http://yadlachim.org/?categoryid=203&articleid=577.

in the above article jehovah's witnesses and the jews, a great many controversial issues are placed squarely in the spotlight of history.

TerryWalstrom

From the online journal YAD L'ACHIM

http://yadlachim.org/?CategoryID=203&ArticleID=577

In the above article JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES and the JEWS, a great many controversial issues are placed squarely in the spotlight of history.

This article is arguably the first time the curtain has been pulled back from the standpoint of Jewish opinion squarely confronting Jehovah's Witnesses claims of 'persecution.'

I strongly urge everybody to read the contents in great detail.

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Example:

"In 1938, in yet another of their official publications in Germany, the true attitude of the sect to the Jews came loud and clear. Under the headline 'The Jews in Palestine' they write that Jews’ “eyes are blind and their ears are deaf to God’s truth.”(49) They explain that the Jews will never succeed in returning to Palestine because it is against the will of 'Jehovah'. And anyway the Jews belong to “organization of the Devil”. (49)

And the declaration ends:
“The Jews are the epitome of the fact how terrible it is not to be under Jehovah’s blessings. Separated from God’s grace, they are restless here, too. Sowing the wind they are reaping the whirlwind! Just how long?”(49)

A clearer example of deep theological anti-Semitism is hard to imagine."

Another example:

'The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust' describes the behavior of members of the sect in the camps:
“… they refused to cooperate with other illegal political groups, to try to escape or to rebel against SS… in the end the SS exploited this unusualbehavior of the 'Bible Students'” for their own benefit. For example, by the orders of Heinrich Himmler, they were allowed to gather mushrooms and fruits outside the camps, because there was no danger of them trying to run away or to attack members of the SS. As a result of this policy change by SS, the conditions of“Bible Students” in the camps improved."(32)

The truth is that the moral conduct of 'Jehovah’s Witnesses' in the camps did not differ from conduct of other non-Jewish prisoners – some of them behaved like human beings and others not at all. This is how they are described in a book 'Face to Face with Nazis – fighters tell their story' (published by the 'Association of Invalids of War on Nazism' in cooperation with 'Yad Vashem') by a Jew who was together with them in the concentration camps:
“In the camps in Poland they did not always behave according to their teachings. They served the cruel Nazi enemy very well with everything connected to murdering the Jews.”(53)
The writer of these lines could not have known what were the teachings of the sect. If he had known, he would’ve understood that they behave totally “according to the teachings.”